Vintage Denim?

[Maynard Friedman]

Last purchase of 2024 probably!

[silencejoe]

39 minutes ago, Dr_Heech said:

Lovely @silencejoe why is it your last purchase may l ask?

Ha ha try to save some money 

Edited December 13, 2024 by silencejoe

[Dr_Heech]

28 minutes ago, silencejoe said:

Ha ha try to save some money 

Good luck with that! 😆

[silencejoe]

More photo S91j vs 91j 

[indigoeagle]

Some inspiration for Christmas presents:

levis 501 xx 1937
(looking at the reverse yoke could this be 1941?)

levis 507xx 50s
 

40s vintage chino pants
This one is sold unfortunately.

 

 

Edited December 18, 2024 by indigoeagle

[Dr_Heech]

@indigoeagle Yes looks to be the 1941 model

[indigoeagle]

On 12/19/2024 at 5:50 AM, Dr_Heech said:

@indigoeagle Yes looks to be the 1941 model

Just saw this on the TCB early 37 C page.
Apparently they are calling it (41 model with reverse yoke) late 37, produced in 40s.
There also seems to be a mid 37 model.

[aho]

If you were wondering where all the grails were, look no further than Thailand

 

[aho]

More Inspiration Tokyo footage, this time from team Berberjin

 

[Dr_Heech]

Rare 42 inseam 501SXX.

S stood for 'Special length' in the 1940s and 1950s, later changed to 501XX SP in the early 60s, then later again to the 1501/2501 and 3501 prefixes. I've seen a 40" inseam before but never a 42.

These pics courtesy of Mushroom vintage

 

 

Edited March 15 by Dr_Heech

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

I would have expected a crazy leg twist with those long inseams, assuming they had been fully shrunken 

[Dr_Heech]

On 3/15/2025 at 11:47 AM, Sympathy-For-The-Denim said:

I would have expected a crazy leg twist with those long inseams, assuming they had been fully shrunken 

Yeah l would imagine so too. As a side note, when the red tab was first introduced and advertised in late 1936, the first ways of advertising were to hang these painted flat wooden cut-out cowboy torsos, with an big arrow on the back pointing towards the red tab. At the waist of the top half of the cowboy, there was a massive pair of 501XX nailed to it. I never saw the waist sizes but the inseam was 60 inches! Then at the bottom of each leg, a painted flat wooden cowboy boot was attached, to complete the whole cowboy figure. These were hung outside dry goods stores and retailers in the West in the late 1930's.

 

 

- sorry about the pic quality,  but you get the idea.

Edited March 17 by Dr_Heech
West not East

[Dr_Heech]

1947 Bluebell's Wrangler 1st prototype with levis style arc and leather label. Around the following year after a lawsuit from Levi's regarding arcs, the W stitching appears and the leather label was replaced by a plastic one. The latter was more to do with the modern washing machine becoming the norm and would shrink the labels right up and they would turn to a piece of unreadable jerky leather.

Anyway the reason l'm posting is that this is the clearest original 1st label on a pair l've seen so far, so thought l'd share for posterity sake etc (click twice for clarity). Looks to have been soaked/washed once?

 

 

Never given Wrangler too much thought when it comes to the 'big 3' but the more l study l realise that they were in many ways the first designer jeans compared to Levi's and Lee. Yes the Wrangler brand was late to the party in terms of the (cowboy) market share, but within a very short space of time apparently took a huge chunk of both its competitor's pie becoming Pro Rodeo sponsors etc etc.

Anyway,  carry on ..

 

 

Edited March 29 by Dr_Heech
Grammar lol

[Double 0 Soul]

Morning Charlie.. Takahashi-san, (the guy who owns Junky Style) owns a deadstock pair, if you check the blog

http://style.junky.co.jp/

There is some info and photos, i posted about them on Pg1 of the M-Series thread, alas, the links were lost in deletiongate but if you pick through the blog posts using the search, i'm sure you can dig it up, the blog is pretty well archived.

[crownzip]

1960's Big Mac dungarees with lots of repairs still going strong.

Edited April 1 by crownzip

[indigoeagle]

Are there any models in the 501XX book or known to be owned by collectors, that haven't been reproed yet?

Sugarcane, TCB, FWs and the others all have their own vintage jeans or work together with collectors to reproduce.

Most models have been known for years, but the recent FWs 1945 second half was new to me.
The pair is similar to the 1942 one by Warehouse  (crotch rivet, denim pocket bags, all yellow stitching, no coin pocket rivets) with the  difference perhaps being for the FW one cleaner stitching/cutting again after the end of the war?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

@indigoeagle I wouldn't take FW's sewing as an indicator of the original models as FW always has rather neat stitching. 

The late 45 model of FW is probably based on the #24 model from the 501XX book. I had Konaka-san made me a version of this model. They are now with @Dr_Heech.

The 501XX book features 10 WW2 models of which we have mostly seen all. And not all of those models are special in terms of details. But there is one model which I haven't seen repro-ed widely: a model with paper patch and printed upside-down arcs. Only CSF made paper patch WW2 models. At least from the top of my head.

[Dr_Heech]

On 4/28/2025 at 3:16 PM, indigoeagle said:

Are there any models in the 501XX book or known to be owned by collectors, that haven't been reproed yet?

I've sometimes wished that the spotlight that shines on the niche range of 501XX available during the early 1940s would shine on the niche range of 501XX available during the early 1920s (1915-1921 model, 1922-1925 model, 1926, 1927, 1928-1934 model - l'm guessing here) but at the same time, l'm glad they haven't, at least for my wallet's sake. Probably not as marketable as the WW2 stuff though.